Monthly Archive: April 2017
In a recent article for First Things, George Weigel provided excellent insights into the neo-conservative Catholic mind as he bemoaned the allegedly soon-to-occur regularization of the Society of St. Pius X; claiming that doing so “would immeasurably damage the New Evangelization.” From his …
A recent interview of the District Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Germany, Fr. Bernhard Gerstle, FSSP, is getting a good bit of well-deserved attention in traditional circles thanks mainly to his comments concerning the SSPX, the Second Vatican Council …
The paradoxical nature of our faith is never more apparent than during the Easter season as we contemplate the reconciling power of the Resurrection of Our Lord; making sense of the seeming contradiction that exists between the Cross as an instrument of execution …
Father José Miguel here chanting the Medieval Sequence of Easter, Victimæ Paschali Laudes accompanied by our young and talented organist, Ramón Villoria Blanco. {Latin} Víctimæ Pascháli laudes ímmolent Chrístiani. Agnus rédemit oves: Christus ínnocens Patri reconciliávit peccátores. Mors et vita duéllo conflixére mirándo: …
In an April 12th interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica, Archbishop Georg Gänswein confirmed that Benedict the Abdicator has read Amoris Laetitia and is well aware of the crisis surrounding it. Even so, according to Gänswein, the Pope Contemplatus has “no intention …
By: Randy Engel Introduction “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln President Lincoln may or may not have uttered these …
The Russian edition of the Opera Omnia of Benedict XVI Ratzinger – Volume XI has just been published; along with it, a roughly 500 word Preface for the work that was written by Benedict the Abdicator at the project’s inception back in July …
As his sermon for the Easter Vigil makes plain, not even the Resurrection of Our Lord from the dead is capable of unmooring Francis’ thoughts from the temporal concerns of almighty mankind. Commenting upon “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary” who went to …
On 27 March, Professor Roberto de Mattei delivered an address in Washington, D.C., on the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s appearance at Fatima. The complete text of the address has been published at Rorate Caeli and it is well worth reading in full …
InfoVaticana has published yet another interview with Cardinal Raymond Burke; this one covering a wide variety of topics. You can read it there in its fullness. Here, I will touch only on his comments concerning the dubia. As I pointed out several weeks …